Jacob's Room |
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| Woolf, Virginia |
| Series title: | Wiseblood Classics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4952-8363-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2014 |
| Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $7.17 |
Book Description:
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"amazing . . . a new type of fiction has swum into view." -E.M. ForsterPublished the same year as James Joyce's ULYSSES and T.S. Eliot's THE WASTE LAND, JACOB'S ROOM is Virginia Woolf's first foray into impressionist fiction. The characters of JACOB'S ROOM interlock memories of Jacob Flanders, wrestling from obscurity his ephemeral existence. Is a man's life, in memory, nothing more than the imposed interpretations of outsiders-in this case the upper-middle-class Clara Durant or the...
More Description"amazing . . . a new type of fiction has swum into view." -E.M. ForsterPublished the same year as James Joyce's ULYSSES and T.S. Eliot's THE WASTE LAND, JACOB'S ROOM is Virginia Woolf's first foray into impressionist fiction. The characters of JACOB'S ROOM interlock memories of Jacob Flanders, wrestling from obscurity his ephemeral existence. Is a man's life, in memory, nothing more than the imposed interpretations of outsiders-in this case the upper-middle-class Clara Durant or the bohemian art student Florinda-or does authentic meaning reveal itself in spite of our limited subjectivities?"It seems then that men and women are equally at fault. It seems that a profound, impartial, and absolutely just opinion of our fellow-creatures is utterly unknown. Either we are men, or we are women. Either we are cold, or we are sentimental. Either we are young, or growing old. In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows."-JACOB'S ROOMWiseblood Books fosters works of fiction and non-fiction, poetry and philosophy that find redemption in uncanny places and people; wrestle us from the tyranny of boredom; mock the pretensions of respectability; engage the hidden mysteries of the human heart, be they sources of either violence or courage; articulate faith and doubt in their incarnate complexity; dare an unflinching gaze at human beings as "political animals"; and suffer through this world's trials without forfeiting hope.